Why Can't Chris Houlihan From The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past Be Found?
1,246According to Gaming Lore, Chris won a Nintendo Power Contest. Why has he never come forward to tell his story? (More below...)
Episode Information
GTV 104 "Where in the World is Chris Houlihan?" Season 5 Episode 21
Original Airdate: December 18, 2020
Produced September-December 15, 2020
Recorded at Butsudan Studios and edited on my 15" MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, which was starting to show signs of age, though rock-solid.
Produced with Final Cut Pro and Photoshop, which my job paid for!
0:00 Pre-emption
0:12 GTV ID: A Secret to Everybody!!
0:20 Introduction
0:36 PAID: Shiller Legends
1:33 Prologue
3:23 The Warmech Challenge
4:50 The Discovery of Chris Houlihan
6:53 Others From The Dark Ages Told Their Tale....
8:32 The Theory
13:24 A Missed Opportunity
15:46 Nintendo's Silence
16:44 Shock ending!!
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Research:
The links I used to pinpoint 2001 as the date of First Discovery
https://www.zeldaxtreme.com/link-to-the-past/codes/ Feb 2001
http://zelda.pocitac.com/zsneshnt.shtml.htm Feb 2001
https://eeggs.com/items/26809.html June 2001
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/snes/588436-the-legend-of-zelda-a-link-to-the-past/faqs/20233
Dated 2002
Stories of 15-minutes of Nintendo Fame
http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2018/12/feature_the_real_wizard_a_nintendo_world_champions_tale
https://jeuxvideo.rds.ca/top-10-mega-man-de-papa-cassette/
https://kotaku.com/nintendo-power-helped-a-shy-fan-show-her-art-to-the-wor-1786871046
Some footage courtesy of Scanlinksean and FFTV
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